Tag: art
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Dirty secret
Nowadays admitting you’re a poet’s like Telling someone you were IRA back in the day A dirty secret whose telling betrays altogether too much of the true shape, Or that you had a teenage girlfriend back, quote, when the going was good, People look at you strangely, as well they should; The poet like bowyer…
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Shards of sharp wonderglass
Evening sky’s pied tricolour like An Irish flag hiked up for war Moonrise illumes the pike-wielding ranks, who roar. Osiris eyelid green where it seems The sky could be reached A chartreuse hand sharp throughout with thorns, nest-addled Resting as a saddle does on one’s best horse Palms gorse-pricked, hands settling upon shoulderous mountainrounds. Like…
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Lemon soul
Chasing spirits Soul Reaver Fame, fortune sole reason Busy bee, eager beaver I’ll dead beef, not teasing Dead, not leaves, falling season.
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HEALING AFTER A BEATING
Stopped the coffee to stop the cough Body healing after so many years brought to heel By smoke after smoke, and huffing weed Bow to none I never kneel Even in the room below the steeple Nuns creepy and priests creeping Into the primary school peeping Parent teacher evening Better hide the pedos Can my…
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Brief abbrev
Got no PC but PCP For me no OBE Closer ODB No APR, overdraft AIB Masked up, massive rented JCB Mass grave for you after a raid, TCB 2CBs where I keep CDs In VVS, moving boxes like MGS Grow’s like a wood, no MDF In the car, blaring KMFDM In the Phantom, no FM…
Alchemisland 